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Phage vs Plage - What's the difference?

phage | plage |

As nouns the difference between phage and plage

is that phage is a virus that is parasitic on bacteria while plage is a region; country.

phage

English

Noun

(en-noun)Hans-Wolfgang Ackermann: Phage or phages. Bacteriophage Ecology Group (BEG) News, vol 14, 2002-10-01"The plural word phages' refers to different types of phage, whereas in common usage the word ' phage can be both singular and plural, referring in the plural sense to particles of the same type of phage." Maloy et al: Microbial Genetics, 2nd ed., 1984, ISBN 9780867202489, p. 81
  • (microbiology, virology) A virus that is parasitic on bacteria.

    • Synonyms

    * bacteriophage

    References

    * (wikipedia "phage")

    See also

    * virophage

    Anagrams

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    plage

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a region; country
  • * Chaucer
    • The plages of the north.
  • (label) a bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun
    • (Webster 1913) ----